What in the world is a hemisectomy?!
Question:
What in the world is a hemisectomy?
Answers:
It means "amputation of one root of a two-rooted mandibular tooth"
Dorland's Medical Dictionary http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns...
Hemisection means
1. division into two equal parts.
2. surgical division of a multiple rooted tooth from the crown to the furcation with removal of a root and part of the crown.
http://medical-dictionary.thefreediction...
Hemisect means
To divide along the mesial plane.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/hemisec...
Hemispherectomy refers to removing one side of the brain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hemispherec...